It’s alive! Shelley-Godwin Archive to launch 10/31

This image shows folio 92r of MS. Abinger c. 57, one of the last leaves of the manuscript of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. (The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)

The Shelley-Godwin Archive will have its public launch at the New York Public Library on Halloween, Thursday 31 October, 2013, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the Margaret Berger Forum, Room 227.

Neil Fraistat and David Brookshire from the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities will describe the creation of the Archive’s first transcribed and encoded manuscript, the Bodleian Library’s Frankenstein notebooks of Mary Shelley. Liz Denlinger of the Pforzheimer Collection will give a brief overview of the Archive’s generation and birth. Charles Robinson of the University of Delaware will give a more extended talk on the composition of the novel, with illustrations from the Archive.

Early editions of the novel and Frankensteiniana will be on display.

Refreshments will be served.

There is plenty of room but you do need to reserve a spot. Please don’t respond to this address but to elizabethdenlinger [at ] nypl [dot] org.

Enter at 42nd Street, take the elevator to the second floor, look across the hall and you’ll see the Berger Forum.

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